The system is failing the people who make care possible.
Village Care wasn't built in a corporate boardroom. It was born out of the late-night exhaustion, the dead-end waitlists, and the quiet frustration of modern parenting. We are moving past the outrage to build a neighborhood utility that restores economic fairness to educators and deep transparency to families.
DRIVEN BY THE SHARED STRUGGLE
The Spark: when we realized the system was broken
Like thousands of parents, we were told the same thing when looking for childcare: 'Get on a waitlist before you conceive, or get lucky.
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When we faced the exhausting reality of corporate childcare—the strict, rigid hours, the astronomical fees, and the crushing commercial center waitlists—we realized something was profoundly broken. The massive, corporate centers are too expensive to build, staff, and maintain, driving an annual staff turnover rate of nearly 100% that disrupts the emotional consistency our children need.
Yet, right in our own neighborhoods, incredible, state-licensed independent providers are operating micro-daycares out of their homes. They are passionate, deeply experienced educators, but they are completely invisible to families because they lack marketing tools, and traditional corporate software eats up to 10% of their weekly revenue.
We realized the solution to the childcare crisis isn't more corporate concrete. It's empowering the independent educators who are already opening their doors to our communities. We built Village Care not just as a platform, but as a promise: to give parents the transparent tools to verify care for themselves, and to give independent providers the business dignity they deserve.
-The Village Care Team
The values driving our code.
OUR CORE PILLARS
Built for connection, not scrolling.
We reject the outrage loops of traditional social media groups and the transactional coldness of generic lead-generation sites. Village Care is designed strictly for local utility—creating a calm, clear digital space where families can review verified facts and independent providers can run sustainable businesses.
Human-Centric over Outrage Algorithms
Confidence comes from knowing.
We don't ask you to blindly trust a marketing claim. We believe you deserve to see the hard data. Through our objective, fact-based Trust Badge system, we make deep transparency our primary product, allowing you to verify licensing, background checks, and community reviews directly.
Radical Transparency
Keeping margins with the makers.
In-home educators are the backbone of early childhood development, yet traditional platforms take predatory cuts of their hard-earned tuition. We keep our infrastructure lean and utilize low-cost Stripe ACH processing to ensure independent providers keep 100% of their marketplace earnings.
Economic Fairness
LEADERSHIP & ADVISORS
The people behind the village.
Kris Grischott
Co-Founder & CEO
Driven by his own firsthand frustrations as a parent searching for childcare, Kris founded Village Care to build the neighborhood infrastructure he needed for his own family. As both a dad and a customer of the product, he focuses on operational execution and strategic growth—dedicated to creating an ecosystem where independent, home-based childcare providers can run sustainable businesses, and families can find the absolute transparency they deserve.
Rebecca Weisenhoff
Co-Founder & CMO
As a design and brand professional with deep experience in the Fintech and SaaS sectors, Rebecca leads the product experience, brand architecture, and marketing strategy for Village Care. She is focused on turning complex regulatory and financial workflows into seamless, transparent digital experiences for both parents and independent providers—ensuring the platform feels human, neighborhood-centric, and entirely intuitive.
Dr. Alondra Chaire
Strategic Advisor
A respected neuroscientist and an active member of the Travis County Childcare Board, Dr. Chaire brings invaluable regulatory, developmental, and early childhood policy expertise to Village Care. Her strategic guidance ensures our platform infrastructure bridges the gap between stringent state licensing compliance and the real-world, daily operational needs of independent childcare providers.
We are building the future of care. Shape it with us.
Our product isn’t entirely finished, but our mission is entirely locked in. If you believe that childcare should be rooted in neighborhood transparency and economic respect, we invite you to join us as an early pioneer partner.